Fort Montecchio-Lusardi

Fort Montecchio-Lusardi is a military fort in Colico, in the Province of Lecco in northern Italy, built between 1911 and 1914 to guard the roads of Spluga, Maloja and Stelvio against a possible invasion of northern Italy through neutral Switzerland by the Central Powers. It mounts four French 149-millimetre guns with a range of 14 kilometres, each rotating inside a cast-iron dome, with the fort's two functional sections linked by a curved gallery. The fort saw almost no combat in either World War, remaining inactive throughout the First World War and drawing only a brief exchange of fire from partisans against a German column during the Second, and it survives today as the only Italian fort from the First World War preserved intact with its original armament. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/